SENTIMENTAL SUNDAYS: GRANDMA’S STICKY TOFFEE PUDDING

This is probably the most thumbed recipe that has been passed around the family ever – the pudding that is expected to be at any large family gathering, be it winter or summer, the pudding that is requested on return from far away lands and the pudding everyone goes for if there dare to be something else on offer too. It is a pudding and not a desert that wraps you up in a comforting hug and whose smell of cooking in the oven can’t help but bring a smile to your face . Pleasingly stodgy yet light sponge with sticky and sweet molasses sauce. It is not one for those watching their waist line as it was be sacrilege to not eat it with a good helping of double cream and extra toffee sauce. It is simply a taste of home – Grandma’s ‘famous’ sticky toffee pudding.